If I Were Mayor I Would ...

Marisa Demarco [ Mon Jan 26 2009 12:41 PM ]

Remember this?

Turn off the red-light cams? Build a lowrider park? Hold a Festival of Art Smashing for the I-40 pots?

Finish the sentence.

Alibi reporter Carolyn Carlson will be interviewing candidates for the 2009 mayoral election. She wants to know what you, readers, would ask them.

Thus far, the contenders are:

City Councilor Debbie O’Malley

City Councilor Michael Cadigan

Former state Senate Pro Tem President Richard Romero

Donna Rowe, a homeless youth advocate.

Post questions here or e-mail carolyn@alibi.com.

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- hotrod
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If I were Mayor I would [ Mon Jan 26 2009 7:23 PM ]

be much more cool than Marty
- woodhouse
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WWMMD [ Mon Jan 26 2009 7:28 PM ]

What would (the alibi blog's) Mayor McCheese Do?
- EatTheRich
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If I were Mayor I would [ Mon Jan 26 2009 11:16 PM ]

bulldoze down Marty the Hair Loosin' Mayor's house for being a public nusiance.
That way he could understand that one man's nusiance is another man's home.
- jonnyblujeans
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I would [ Tue Jan 27 2009 7:50 AM ]

relax the booze rules, but step up enforcement of underage drinking and DUI laws.
- FatAndSassy
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I would... [ Tue Jan 27 2009 9:02 AM ]

allow drinking in the streets, smoking in bars, late-night speakeasies, and one free taco per citizen per day...
- Nick Brown
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I would [ Tue Jan 27 2009 10:34 AM ]

burn down the evidence room.
- sloppy
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Already posted my first question [ Tue Jan 27 2009 10:42 AM ]

here
- FelixZeeKitten
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I would [ Tue Jan 27 2009 11:07 AM ]

Give all the hungry children with irresponsible parents, a cheese sangwich.
- robertmcat
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I would... [ Tue Jan 27 2009 8:57 PM ]

...give everyone the right to nap.
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That was Lynne Beene... [ Tue Jan 27 2009 9:03 PM ]

...in the video clip. She's funny.
- Nick Brown
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Beene [ Tue Jan 27 2009 10:10 PM ]

I know. Teacher vs. ?. They could have squared it up a bit more fairly.
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Really [ Wed Jan 28 2009 10:01 AM ]

Who was that lady after Lynne and what the hell did she say?
- Topomap17
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What should be done [ Wed Jan 28 2009 1:28 PM ]

Give Suncal the boot and use TIDDS as it was ment to be used.
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Beene 4 Mayor!! [ Wed Jan 28 2009 9:20 PM ]

She TEACHES rhetoric well...Marty USES it poorly.
I say let's make Lynne mayor and send Marty to Texas...that will have the benefit of raising the collective IQ in both states!
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Rule of thumb re. teachers... [ Sat Jan 31 2009 7:57 AM ]

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
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actually... [ Sat Jan 31 2009 10:18 AM ]

Actually, the saying goes:
Those who can, do
Those who can't, teach.
Those who can't teach, teach P.E.
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SERIOUSLY - A QUESTION [ Sat Jan 31 2009 5:53 PM ]

I would ask the canidates to justify why they would continue the Rediflex RedLight camera program when the statistics have repeatly shown that accidents increased in every intersection where they have been placed. (That is where the statistics have not been skewed unfairly) Where the quasi-court system dealing with the same are a "guilty until proven innocent" bias, Why these cameras are claimed to replace actual law enforcement officers, would they accept campaign donations from rediflex members as chavez has.
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Because [ Sat Jan 31 2009 7:39 PM ]

it has very little to do with safety or prevention of accidents but everything to do with raising revenue for city coffers. It's just another form of taxation.